01/05/2015

APES 3: Pushed Back to 2017

When 20th Century Fox announced that the third chapter in the rebooted Planet of the Apes film series would be released in the summer of 2016, only two years following the release of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, it seemed like a bit of wishful thinking. Now, according to Deadline, the studio seems to have come to its corporate senses and has announced that the film has been bumped from July 2016 to July 14, 2017. No doubt a big part of the reason for the change is to allow the time for director Matt Reeves to carefully craft the film and for WETA to make sure that the visual effects don't falter in comparison. With Dawn passing $700 million at the global box office, Fox can, of course, afford to be patient.